Imagine the scene:
When Arjun with his confusion about fight or not to fight against Kauravas with no hopes comes to Krishn for help and Krishn replies:
“Hi Arjun, I understand your confusion and I do have solution, we are right now in battlefield , let’s discuss this issue on dinner table”
Weird scene, right? That’s the first feeling came to my mind after this imagination. What I tried is , merged two time frames and outcome was silly. What could be the better place to learn about battlefield? Battlefield itself. 5000 years back, to sing life’s ultimate song, shree Krishn did not use dinner table but selected battlefield only and when Krishn selects war as equally as peace is, then there should be connection between life and war just like we understand life and peace. One cannot be without the other. Peace has identity dependent on war and war reflects peace only. War will be with us as long as life exists on this planet earth. Maybe the character of war will change, its structure and shape will vary, its plane, strategy, and style will be different, but war will continue as long as life will. It is impossible that war will disappear from this earth. Man cannot live without war, war had always been with us, it is with us now, and it is going to be with us in future. Life is war and we should be warriors else there will be question mark on our existence.
Am I talking about becoming warmonger? No, please, absolutely NO. But surely, I am talking about becoming peaceful warrior. Now, you will say that, stop confusing us and come to the point.
Let’s talk about peaceful warrior.
Point here is to take life as a war and fighting each battle of survival like a warrior. War signifies not only fight based on guns or nuclear weapons but it also means tiny battles we fight in day to day life. There is word in Hindi language called “Shaurya” which I will translate to “bravery” and which means “No fear”. It is about developing NO FEAR mind set towards life and its intricacies. NO FEAR at individual level will help us in battles we fight against our will, fellow men and nature. NO FEAR at society level will create fearless nation which can fight righteous wars.
NO FEAR is one quality of warrior. I will try to explore more in subsequent writings.
Stay tuned.
~ Trailblazer.
